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Vitu-Ghazi Inspector

Creature — Elf Detective1 generic manaGreen mana

The collect evidence cost is the whole trick to reading this creature honestly: the reach body and the enter trigger are separate purchases, and the graveyard tax buys only the second. Cast it clean and you have a defensive 1/3 flier-blocker for two, no ceremony. Feed it six mana value worth of exiled cards and the counter-plus-lifegain rider comes online, turning a spent graveyard into a body-and-a-half elsewhere on the board. That is the deliberate friction in the design: the trigger costs more the earlier you want it, so an empty opening yields only the wall while a mid-game yard full of dead cards buys the whole package. The +1/+1 counter targets any creature, which quietly makes this a growth piece as much as a wall; the two life is the sweetener that keeps the aggressive line from feeling purely defensive. Collect evidence is green's version of a delve-adjacent graveyard payment: instead of shaving mana off a cost, it converts dead cards into a conditional value trigger, and the builder decides on cast whether the yard is worth spending. That single decision point is more interesting than the modest stat line suggests, and it lets the same card play defense on turn two and pay off aggression six turns later without changing a word of its text.

Vitu-Ghazi Inspector (mkm)
MKM · #183common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.) Reach When this creature enters, if evidence was collected, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and you gain 2 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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